Product DescriptionThese hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed color illustrations, teach you the latest techniques for designing Web sites with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS gives you control over the appearance of your Web sites by separating the visual presentation from the content. It lets you easily make minor changes to a site or perform a complete overhaul of the design. In CSS Web Site Design Hands-On Training, you’ll start with a review of CSS essentials, learn to build effective navigation and page layouts, and then move on to work with typography, colors, backgrounds, and white space. The included CD-ROM is loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime training videos, and real-world projects take you through the Web page creation process, one step at a time. Over 60 Step-by-Step Tutorials • Using CSS and XHTML together • Learning essentials of selectors, inheritance, and the cascade • Creating CSS navigation • Laying out pages with CSS • Adding colors and backgrounds • Setting typography • Creating white space, margins, and borders • Creating tables • Styling for print • Plus much more!
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Rating: - Modern concepts sprinkled with insights
I was surprised at the depth. Hands on training books are perceived as starter books. However, in this book there are any less-than-obvious tidbits for front-end developers - even those that already use CSS all the time and may think themselves past such a book. I teach an adult ed class on css and always look for lessons I can share with my students. I recommend this book to them because it has modern concepts sprinkled with insights that even an experienced coder may not have thought of. The ... Read More
Rating: - This book smells good
This is a great book for someone learning CSS or for someone who might have skipped a few basics when they learned CSS originally. Eric Meyer is pretty much the most famous author of CSS books. His books rarely miss.
The book is very high quality as far as being easy to read. It uses high quality paper and print. The examples are in full color and are very sharp. This book is definitely easy on the eye balls - major kudos to whoever handled this part of the process.
Rating: - A great comprehensive tutorial for beginners.
As a CS major, I had taken a web programming course that mostly dealt with Javascript and PHP but didn't heavily emphasize the design, and had been meaning to learn CSS sometime. As a beginner, I've looked at some online tutorials, but none presented the materials well. When I saw this at a bookstore, I was immediately drawn by the easy layout of the contents as well as the fully-colored screenshots of a current page as checkpoints (color helps a lot compared to other black-and-white texts, especially ... Read More
Rating: - A true tutorial about CSS
There are a lot of books about CSS. There are a lot of books pretending to be a tutorial about CSS. In my opinion, this book is one the few recent books about CSS that is worth for a beginner in the field.
Rating: - Good for beginning CSS users
This book was a good start for learning CSS. It works solely with code instead of using Dreamweaver CS3 interface box in the design view. I was expecting to learn more about the interface box but the entire book uses code in a text editing program. Overall a decent book but I will definitely need other to supplement it.
- Modern concepts sprinkled with insights
- This book smells good
- A true tutorial about CSS
